I am using it 10 minutes and I already hate it since it's too good.
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
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Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#202You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am. Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color. Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I’m building the next iPhone and it’ll be done by 2 AM.
This is interesting, because in many ways I’m almost the exact opposite. If I’m slouched in my chair, then I’m either completely disengaged or doing something mundane like dealing with email. If I’m upright or sat forward then I’m engaged and executing, but maybe not thinking deeply - I’m doing something I’ve already thought about and decided on. And if I’m on my feet and moving around, often doing some mundane chore…
I'm like you at 9 a.m. and like grand parent by 9 p.m.
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#203Congrats on the app. I'm seeing that "great-ai-unlock" is happening. I see in last month a lot of new software being codeveloped with claude/codex/gemini/you-name it. Before, it was too costly to do sth like the Posture app: here, you would have to know Swift and apple apis to write such tool. Would you be C# (very good) programmer with free weekend, and an idea: no cookie for ya. These days, due to "great-ai-unlock"…
Maybe this is a naive take, but I don't really think LLMs have done that much to change the actual situation around ability/outcomes. If you are actually a very good C# programmer, knowing Swift and searching some Apple documentation seems very reasonable. It might help "unstick" you if you aren't super confident, but it doesn't seem to me like it's actually leveling up mediocre programmers to "very good" ones, in fa…
No I can confirm this. I am at least an average C# dev, with 16 years of experience.
I have built a very nicely responsive real-time syncing iOS app in what amounts to a weekend of time. (I only have an hour here and there, young kids) I had zero iOS/Swift development experience prior to it.
I can also confirm that this wouldn't have been built if it weren't for Claude Code. It's "just" an improved groceries app, that works especially well for my wife and me.
Without LLM's, and with just an hour here and there, I wouldn't have done the work to learn the intricacies of iOS and Swift dev, set up the app, and actually tweak and polish it so it works well -- just to scratch the itch of a bit better groceries handling.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I disagree with you, thank you for sharing your decision-making process: you're probably not the only one who thinks this way. In general, would you pay for a notorised build of free software, if you had use for that software, even if an un-notorised build or the source code were available?
I seriously doubt that he actually would. And in that unlikely event he'd be in a miniscule minority. Not a good open source monetisation strategy.
You may be severely wrong: I like to pay and contribute to things I use, believe it or not.
I love to buy small apps from indie developers or donate some money to things I use and I love: when I was a student, of course, things were different.
Nowadays, luckily, I can contribute and I do it gladly.
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#205I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.
While I disagree with you, thank you for sharing your decision-making process: you're probably not the only one who thinks this way. In general, would you pay for a notorised build of free software, if you had use for that software, even if an un-notorised build or the source code were available?
It depends: having it notarized is a way to show someone with a certain reputation of "Hey! This is my code, this is me, if something happens, you can kill the switch".
If notarisation requires you some kind of payment, I would be okay with you charging me some money, if I obviously find your code has a good value for me.
I read comments around here about "Well: you can compile it yourself" or "it's open source! You can check the code by yourself".
And, while all of those arguments are accurate and valid, the point is "I do not feel like it" or, a little reminder, "The Great Suspender" was an example of a beautiful open source little app to suspend tabs on Google Chrome that, one glorious day, switched hands and, suddenly, after some time, someone noticed the repository and the code from the add-in were different, and those changes were made with nefarious intent.
Luckily, somehow found out, but some people do not have the time or the will to be playing that game.
A piece of code that requires access to my camera, regardless of size (Thank you for the tone: I hope I responded to your question :)
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I’m the same. I also like taking walks to think but I’ve found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down (I.e. looking at my feet). It’s also how I stand thinking in the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck. Maybe something beneficial about that position of the neck, or maybe just habit! I will also have conversations in my head during my walk, I’ve done this my whole life and I’m no…
Alas, I'm not alone in meditating and thinking while taking a shower. It's one of the moments of my day when I recollect what happened, what I need to do, and what not to do. The problem is that I can get quite lost during this phase, and hot water isn't cheap, so my SO is always threatening to put a big timer in the bathroom.
My pet hypothesis about why shower is often praised to be such a mindful place is that it has not so much to do with water and more to do with the fact that for many people life alternates between 1) constant social interaction and interruptions from other people and 2) bathroom time.
How many people these days have a dedicated home office, off limits to anyone else? How many partners sleep in different rooms?
Sure, perhaps the sensory experience plays some role, but if your bathroom is reliably the most interruption-free place for you, naturally you’d form a habit of catching up on all the “slow thinking”, most negatively impacted by interruptions, during shower.
I’ve seen people with interruption-free solo hobbies (be that hiking in the woods, motorcycling, rock climbing, etc.) describing similarly mindful experiences, but unlike those shower is the lowest common denominator and perhaps one that happens most routinely.
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#207might be obvious but you have to calibrate it while in your target posture
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#208Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#209Why use a proprietary stack for building this when there is a far more capable open ecosystem available at your fingertips? https://huggingface.co/models?other=human-pose-estimation https://huggingface.co/models?other=3d-human-mesh-recovery
proprietary stack is probably more battery efficient
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I’m the same. I also like taking walks to think but I’ve found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down (I.e. looking at my feet). It’s also how I stand thinking in the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck. Maybe something beneficial about that position of the neck, or maybe just habit! I will also have conversations in my head during my walk, I’ve done this my whole life and I’m no…
Alas, I'm not alone in meditating and thinking while taking a shower. It's one of the moments of my day when I recollect what happened, what I need to do, and what not to do. The problem is that I can get quite lost during this phase, and hot water isn't cheap, so my SO is always threatening to put a big timer in the bathroom.
I’ve gone home from work before to take a shower. At least one time I took multiple showers in a work day to think.
I now live somewhere that hot water is expensive and I didn’t realize how good things were before.